Tag: Dependency Theory
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Criticisms of Official Development Aid
Official Development Aid is aid from governments, which can take the form of either bilateral aid – direct from donor country to recipient country, or multilateral aid, which is channelled through institutions such as the World Bank. The value of Official Development Aid is much greater than aid channelled through non-governmental organisations such as Oxfam,…
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Arguments Against Trade as a Strategy for Development
Andre Gunder Frank (1971) argues that the reason trade doesn’t work for poor countries is a legacy of colonialism – before independence, the colonizing power simply took these commodities. After independence, developing societies are often still over-dependent on exporting these primary commodities, which typically have a very low market-value, and rich countries are happy to…
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The New Rulers of the World – A Summary
The New Rulers of the World (2001) by John Pilger provides a good example of a Dependency Theory analysis of the consequences of neoliberal globalisation, focusing on Indonesia as a case study. The fact that this is a dependency view of development is quite clear from John Pilger’s own summary of the documentary: “There’s no difference…
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World Systems Theory
Core countries exploit those on the periphery in a global economic system.
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Evaluate explanations of development and under-development put forward by dependency theorists
The plan below is just one suggestion as to how you might go about answering this essay. Briefly introduce Dependency Theory Dependency theory is a Marxist theory, developed in the 1970s as a criticism of Modernisation theory. The best known dependency theorist is Andre Gunder Frank Underdevelopment is because the West exploits labour and resources…
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Dependency Theory
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.
